Recto: part of a Karaite ketubba (it mentions the custom of the בני מקרא), accompanied by a note. Addresses in Judaeo-Arabic (in different hands and ink, from each other and the ketubba) have been added to the blank space on recto and to verso. The sender is Abraham b. Abū Joseph, and the recipient, a Karaite (probably, suggested by הששנה הפרחת) named Manṣūr b. Abū l-Ḥasan of Damascus.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 10 lines (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Letter by Abraham Av Bet Din b. Isaac Alluf, formerly a captive, requesting aid on behalf of his fellow captives Joshua b. ʿEli and David b. Samuel. Addressed to the leaders of the congregation. Early 11th century.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 38 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Title page and beginning of an introduction of a polemical treatise on the Karaite calendar by Abū Yaʿqūb Joseph b. Abraham al-Baṣīr, entitled Al-Kitāb ʿalā Aṣḥāb al-Iʿtidāl (“Book against the People of the Equinox”). According to the introduction, Joseph b. Abraham al-Baṣīr was moved to dictate this book when he saw that people incorrectly established the date of Passover because they relied on the equinox instead of the state of the barley crop.Condition: Torn, rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 11 lines (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Covering note for a consignment sent from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Nathan b. Samuel.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
A palimpsest consisting of the Palestinian Talmud, Peʾa 18d and 20b-c, written over a Syriac text, The Life of St Anthony by Athanasius of Alexandria. Edited in Lewis (1902: 146-149) as text XXXV.Condition: Badly torn, holes, stainedLayout: 24 lines
Palimpsest, with Palestinian Talmud, Šeqalim, 44a-b; 46b, written over a Syriac text, The Life of St Anthony by Athanasius of Alexandria. Edited in Lewis (1900: 98-105) as text XXIX.Condition: Torn, holes, stainedLayout: 32-34 lines
Verses from the Latin narrative poem, Ilias Latina, composed by Baebius Italicus in the 1st century CE. Together with T-S Misc. 27d (with which this fragment joins), this fragment contains verses 423-434 (recto) and 442-454 (verso), covering events in the fifth book of the Iliad.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 10 lines
Verses from the Latin narrative poem, Ilias Latina, composed by Baebius Italicus in the 1st century CE. This fragment contains verses 461-475 (recto) and 482-495 (verso), covering events in the fifth book of the Iliad.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 13 lines (recto); 14 lines + marginalia (verso)
Verses from the Latin narrative poem, Ilias Latina, composed by Baebius Italicus in the 1st century CE. Together with T-S Misc. 27e (with which this fragment joins), this fragment contains verses 423-434 (recto) and 442-454 (verso), covering events in the fifth book of the Iliad.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 12 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Passage from David b. Joseph Qimḥi, Sefer ha-Šorašim, roots חשך, חרת, חשש, חשר. The biblical books cited are noted in the margins.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 13-15 lines + marginalia
Passages from the Sefer ha-Šorašim by David b. Joseph Qimḥī (roots עשת, עתר, פלן, פלט, פלך, פלש).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 26 lines